My vegetable garden fence is doing a good job of excluding the rabbits this year. My flowers and fruit trees are on their own. I was sent a bottle of Bobbex-R Animal Repellent and thought I'd try it out on my flowers. It's all natural and combines several ingredients to repel small, plant eating animals. Well the odor repels this not so small plant eater and it also seems to deter the rabbits, since my pansies rallied after their initial beheading and are still going strong. I have since learned to spray in the evening, when the rabbits are feeding. By morning I don't notice the scent.
So far, I'm very pleased with the Bobbex-R and I think I'll try it on my bulbs, in the fall. Maybe the voles won't toss them all to the surface this year. If you're yard is a rabbit sanctuary too, I have some more suggestions for deterring, excluding and otherwise repelling rabbits. I'd be delighted to hear what's worked for you.
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We surrounded our garden ( 40X15) with metal fencing that you get in a
‘roll’ from the box stores. In front of that we dug a trench approx 8″ and put in a ‘rabbit fence’; has much smaller openings. That goes into the ground about 6-8″ and is about 18″ above ground. In the 5 yrs that it has been up I have seen only 1 rabbit in the garden ( due to a vulnerable area near the gate; taken care of). Last week 3 very small baby rabbits darted out of the garden through the fencing; they were really tiny and that’s the only reason they made it through. Two we caught and released, one was found by our cat, Boris.
Yes, a good buried fence works wonders. It’s one of my suggestions. I sometimes fantasize about gardening in a filled in, in ground swimming pool. Let them try and dig through that.
The babies are wily. I once covered my row of strawberry plants, only to find a baby rabbit had moved in under it. But, much as I love cats, I’m sorry to hear that Boris got the runt.